Comment on Engineering Religion

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:04:23 GMT

Do you consider New Atheism the same religion as Communist Atheism in the former Soviet Union?

Other questions: Is Effective Altruism a religion? Is Intentional Insights? Is Yoga a religion? Is the Landmark forum?

The focus of the questions is intended to be on the engineering and social aspects

The social aspects of Islam that regulates how inheritance and child support payments are supposed to work is different than Buddhism which as a religion doesn't care for that and might as David Chapman suggests not include any ethical imperatives.

Before you engineer something you have to decide on what kind of thing you actually want to engineer.

Given that you said you are working on a conlang, it's useful for you to take a mental step back and ask whether the word religion is a useful word for thinking about the domain you want to talk about.

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